lueders_2025_relocation

9,282 rated or chosen profiles from 1,164 respondents, in up to 4 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 7 attributes.

About this table

DescriptionPaired city conjoint: 1,164 Mexican-born immigrants in the US (online, English or Spanish) chose between 4 pairs of destination cities varying jobs, rent, social network, share Mexican, local deportation policy, immigrant healthcare access and community type; also ten 0/1 judgements of each city (five per randomized question version).
ReferenceLueders, H. (2025). Local immigration policies shape immigrants' relocation preferences regardless of immigration status. Political Behavior.
DOI10.1007/s11109-025-10080-0
LicenceCC0 1.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CFPFU7

Notes

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Size and shape

Respondents1,164
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)9,282
Tasks per respondent (most)4
Profiles per task2
Attributes7
Tasks with no profile chosen0

Design

Topicimmigration asylum
A profile representsplace
CountryUS
Language shownen, es
Language of stored levelsen
Randomization restrictionsunknown
Task orderinferred from row order
Profile positioninferred from row order

Task order or profile position was rebuilt from row order; analyses of position or task order should leave it out.

Outcomes:

choiceWhich of these two cities would you rather move to? (paraphrase) [choice, forced]
rating_aloneIn this city, would you expect to / would this hold: Feel alone (paraphrase of the authors' figure label; asked in question version B only) [rating, 0 (no) to 1 (yes)]
rating_discriminationIn this city, would you expect to / would this hold: Fear discrimination (paraphrase of the authors' figure label; asked in question version B only) [rating, 0 (no) to 1 (yes)]
rating_econ_secureIn this city, would you expect to / would this hold: Be economically secure (paraphrase of the authors' figure label; asked in question version A only) [rating, 0 (no) to 1 (yes)]
rating_gov_liberalIn this city, would you expect to / would this hold: Gov't is liberal (paraphrase of the authors' figure label; asked in question version A only) [rating, 0 (no) to 1 (yes)]
rating_gov_protectsIn this city, would you expect to / would this hold: Gov't protects immigrants (paraphrase of the authors' figure label; asked in question version B only) [rating, 0 (no) to 1 (yes)]
rating_helpIn this city, would you expect to / would this hold: Have many people who can help (paraphrase of the authors' figure label; asked in question version A only) [rating, 0 (no) to 1 (yes)]
rating_opportunitiesIn this city, would you expect to / would this hold: Have many opportunities (paraphrase of the authors' figure label; asked in question version B only) [rating, 0 (no) to 1 (yes)]
rating_quality_lifeIn this city, would you expect to / would this hold: High quality of life (paraphrase of the authors' figure label; asked in question version A only) [rating, 0 (no) to 1 (yes)]
rating_safeIn this city, would you expect to / would this hold: Be safe (paraphrase of the authors' figure label; asked in question version A only) [rating, 0 (no) to 1 (yes)]
rating_trust_policeIn this city, would you expect to / would this hold: Trust the police (paraphrase of the authors' figure label; asked in question version B only) [rating, 0 (no) to 1 (yes)]

Columns

attr_communityattr_deportationattr_healthcareattr_jobsattr_networkattr_rentattr_share_mexicanattrpos_communityattrpos_deportationattrpos_healthcareattrpos_jobsattrpos_networkattrpos_rentattrpos_share_mexicanchoicecov_agecov_age_groupcov_age_move_uscov_agree_deportationcov_agree_immistatuscov_attention_passcov_citizen_mexicocov_duration_seccov_educationcov_experiment_ordercov_family_unauthorizedcov_gendercov_hh_adultscov_income_quintilecov_know_deportedcov_question_versioncov_statecov_statuscov_survey_languagecov_survey_weightcov_trust_icecov_worries_deportationcov_years_usidprofilerating_alonerating_discriminationrating_econ_securerating_gov_liberalrating_gov_protectsrating_helprating_opportunitiesrating_quality_liferating_saferating_trust_policetask

The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.

Get the data

Download CSVno account neededBrowse on Redivisexplore and queryCroissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("lueders_2025_relocation", source = "conj")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("lueders_2025_relocation", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Lueders_2025, title={Local Immigration Policies Shape Immigrants’ Relocation Preferences Regardless of Immigration Status}, volume={48}, ISSN={1573-6687}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11109-025-10080-0}, DOI={10.1007/s11109-025-10080-0}, number={3}, journal={Political Behavior}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Lueders, Hans}, year={2025}, month=Sept, pages={1505–1531} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv584
Redivis datasetirw_conjoint v4.2
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/qkye-q530
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv4.2
Metadata sourceirw_meta v44.0